A trial on the 2016 robbery in which armed thieves have linked Star of reality Kim Kardashian In its room and stole millions of dollars in jewelry began in Paris.
Ten people – nine men and a woman – are tried for theft of theft and kidnapping the media personality and the concierge of the residence where she stayed on the night of October 2, 2016. Two of them recognized their participation and the others denied her.
Kardashian was in France for Fashion Week when men disguised as police officers would have attached it with links with zip and adhesive ribbon, held it under the threat of a weapon and stolen for 10 million dollars of jewelry, including a diamond ring of $ 4 million than her husband Kanye West.
In the interviews and in his family reality TV show, Kardashian described being terrified, thinking that she was going to be raped and killed when the criminals broke into her room and pointed a weapon on her.
“They dragged me in the corridor above the stairs, it was then that I saw the weapon as Claire as the day,” she said in her show, “following the Kardashians.” “It makes me so upset to think about it.”
His lawyers said She will testify in person during the trialWith a provisional calendar indicating that this should happen on May 13. The trial should take place until May 23.
“Ms. Kardashian reserves her testimony for the court and the jury and does not wish to develop more for the moment,” they said. “It has great respect and great admiration for the French judicial system and has been treated with great respect by the French authorities. She hopes that the trial continues in an orderly manner, in accordance with French law and with respect for all parties to the case. ”
Twelve people were originally expected in the defendant box. One of them is dead and another is seriously ill and cannot be tried. According to the investigation, five of the 10 accused were present at the scene of the flight.
The “grandfather thieves”
The French press nicknamed them the thieves of the grandfather because the main defendants are older – most of them in the sixties and the 1970s – and were bank thieves with long judicial lockers.
The DNA of two of the accused was found on the scene, and they admitted to having participated in the flight.
Aomar Ait Khedache, now 69 years old, would have been the brain behind the robbery.
Known as “Old Omar”, he would have told investigators that he did not know who Kardashian was, but had heard of a friend about the incredible jewelry she wore when she was released in Paris.
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When the thieves arrived at the Luxury Suites hotel known only under the name of “The No Address” where the celebrity remained during Paris Fashion Week, they would have demanded the guard, under the threat of a weapon, leading them to “the rapper’s wife” – a reference to her husband of the time, West.
“Old Omar” would have written to Kardashian in 2017, when he was in detention, to say sorry. His lawyers said he had written to apologize after hearing him about the trauma of experience.
He left the hotel by bike, just like two others, then met his son, who was waiting for him in a car parked in a neighboring station.
The other man – Yunice Abbas, 77 – publicly admitted to having been a belvedere during the flight.
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He said that he was not armed and that he did not personally threaten Kardashian, but admitted that he had shared the responsibility of the crime.
In 2021, he co-wrote a French language book entitled “I kidnapped Kim Kardashian”.
Abbas told journalists that he would apologize during the trial and give details about his role in the robbery but would not denounce anyone else.
The other accused are suspected of having provided information on the presence of Kardashian in the apartment. Others are accused of playing a role in the resale of jewelry in Antwerp, Belgium.
The gangsters have stolen many jewelry. A single jewel – a diamond cross on the plate that was lost during the escape of the suspects – was recovered.
The suspects accused of having stolen Kardashian will be tried by jury, which in France is reserved for the most serious crimes.
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